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PhD student Tridib Saha has emerged the victor of the Monash University Three Minute Thesis finals.

After taking part in numerous heats and faculty finals, the student, from Monash University Malaysia and the Faculty of Engineering,
wowed judges at the Monash finals Sept. 19, with the summary of his
work on the possibilities of harvesting electrical energy from
vibrations.

After defeating over 200 fellow Monash PhD students, Mr Saha will now
compete against 30 other PhD students from universities across
Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific in the transnational Three
Minute Thesis (3MT®) finals at the University of Western Australia on
Monday, Nov. 3, 2014.

Mr Saha who started his PhD in Engineering
in December 2012, after graduating from a Bachelor of Engineering (with
Honors) in the field of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering,
decided to take part after encouragement from his supervisor, Dr
Ramakrishnan from the Monash School of Engineering.

Final-year teacher education students at the University of Sydney
will be schooled on the importance of early intervention and the
treatment of stuttering as part of program to help prepare them for the
classroom.

Researchers from the Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences hosted an
education forum to deliver knowledge about stuttering to future
teachers, to raise their awareness about the prevalence of speech
disorders, and to arm them with advice about how to help students who
stutter.

Associate Professor Ann Packman from the university’s Australian
Stuttering Research Centre (ASRC) said the aim of the forum was to build
early professional relationships between teachers and speech pathologists and help equip teachers to support students who stutter.

“Approximately one per cent of school students stutter, so it’s very
likely that at some point during their career a teacher will be
confronted with how to support a student in their classroom with this
problem,” Associate Profess…

The University of Queensland (UQ) Pro Bono Centre acknowledged the work of community spirited law students at an awards ceremony this past August.

Certificates were presented to 98 students who participated in pro bono community legal projects during 2013 and 2014.

Director of the UQ Pro Bono Centre Monica Taylor said the students
uphold a core value of the legal profession by undertaking voluntary
work which makes a difference to society.

“This event is an opportunity for us to recognise the immense work of
our students who are responding to unmet legal need in our community
through their pro bono legal work,” Ms Taylor said.

“Through the Centre, UQ
students are able to apply their emerging legal skills, including legal
research and writing, to a range of areas such as community legal
education, law reform and legal casework.”

Ms Taylor said the event inspired other UQ law students
to get involved in the centre’s activities, and also provided an
opportunity for the students …

Students at the University of Queensland
will have greater choice in quality affordable accommodation, with
plans for two new sustainable housing developments on the UQ St Lucia
campus by 2018.

Two sites are being considered for the proposed Student Housing
Project, both on the university’s campus—a vacant block on Walcott
Street and an adjacent block on Hood Street.

UQ
Chief Operating Officer Maurie McNarn said the university was seeking
an innovative design for a high-quality student housing precinct, and
had called for expressions of interest from architectural firms and head
contractors.

“We will select up to six architectural firms to participate in a
design competition during October, with the successful architect and
contractors likely to be appointed in December.”

He said the housing precinct would offer students quality accommodation at a reasonable price.

“The objective is to make optimal, sustainable use of the two UQ
campus sites to promote a cohesive sense of c…

The landmark State of the Tropics project is in the
running for a prestigious sustainability prize, emerging as a finalist
for one of the coveted Green Gown Awards.

The Green Gown Awards Australasia recognise and reward universities and other tertiary institutions for their sustainability actions and initiatives.

Led by James Cook University, the State of the Tropics
project is a ground-breaking initiative that brings together leading
research institutions from across the world’s tropical regions to answer
the simple question: is life in the Tropics improving?

Nobel Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, launched the project’s first major
report in Yangon in June. The project is a finalist in the “Social
Responsibility” category.

James Cook University Vice Chancellor, Professor Sandra Harding said the nomination reflects the quality and breadth of the State of the Tropics project.

“The State of the Tropics is more than a research project.
It delivers important contemporary data which sho…

Actor Cate Blanchett has received a Doctor of Letters honoris causa from Macquarie University, Sept. 25, recognising her extraordinary contribution to the arts, philanthropy and the community.

The award was presented to Blanchett in a morning graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Human Sciences.

“It is a privilege to be addressed by one of the world’s greatest
actors this graduation day,” said Vice-Chancellor, Professor S. Bruce
Dowton.

“Many of the students graduating today will feel great affection for
Cate Blanchett, having grown up watching her in some of the most iconic
films of their childhood and adolescence, and benefitting from her many
contributions to our national conversation.”

Born in Melbourne, Blanchett graduated from the National Institute of
Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1992. She appeared in several Sydney Theatre
Company productions and Australian TV shows, before making her
international film debut in 1997 with her role in Paradise Road.

The University of Melbourne has maintained its position as number 1 in Australia for Engineering and Technology in the latest QS World University Rankings by Faculty.

The latest announcement has seen Engineering and IT at Melbourne jump by nine places internationally, up from number 32 to number 23 in the world.

Overall, the University of Melbourne is currently ranked 33 in the world according to QS, and is the top ranked Australian institution for research citations.

The latest rankings success follows on from last month’s announcement
of the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities results, which
placed Engineering and Information Technology at Melbourne at number 44
in the world, the first time the discipline had been ranked within the
top 50 in that ranking system.

Engineering and Information Technology at
Melbourne is also ranked number 1 in Australia and 32 in the world
according to the Times Higher Education Rankings for 2014. Earlier this
year, QS ranked Melbourne…

Bond University has ramped up its entrepreneurial portfolio with the launch of a second program for young business start-ups.

Bond Business Accelerator is offering six teams of budding
entrepreneurs with innovative business start-up ideas the opportunity to
win $5,000, receive expert mentoring and also take part in a tour to
Silicon Valley in the US later this year.

The new program, which is open to Bond University
students and graduates, will be run in collaboration with the Start Up
Really Fast (S.U.R.F.) accelerator run by local not-for-profit Silicon
Lakes. The Bond Business Accelerator is funded by the Bond Faculty of Business.

Bond Business Accelerator Program Manager Tres West said the
initiative was a structured commercialisation program coupled with
expert mentoring, networking and pitching opportunities.

He said the collaboration with Silicon Lakes’ S.U.R.F. provided
participants with exposure to experienced mentors, access to their
commercial start-up program and …

One of Australia’s most highly regarded environmental scientists, Professor Tim Flannery, will join the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute as a Professorial Fellow.

Professor Flannery said he was delighted to join the University of Melbourne in this role where he could further contribute to research and engagement on issues of sustainability and climate change.

“Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human beings
on the planet. I’m pleased to take up the appointment to continue to
push frontiers and move forward in dealing with climate change,” said
Professor Flannery.

“The research I am planning to undertake at the Melbourne Sustainable
Society Institute will focus on what is needed to renew and replenish
the Earth’s ecosystem,” he said.

Professor Brendan Gleeson, Director of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, said Professor Flannery’s appointment was an outstanding addition to the university community.

Sydney Faculty of Veterinary Science Pathology
Resident Dr Lydia Tong has shown vets how to tell the difference
between bone fractures caused by accidents and those caused by abuse.

Pet abuse and domestic violence are closely linked. Dr Tong’s
fracture identification methods are giving vets the added confidence to
identify cases of violence against pets and could serve as a warning of
domestic violence.

Now, in a new study with Domestic Violence NSW, Dr Tong, from the Sydney Faculty of Veterinary Science,
is looking deeper into the connections between animal abuse and
domestic violence to assess the need for better services to protect both
human and animal victims.

“Around seventy percent of women escaping violent homes also report
pet abuse,” Dr Tong said. “So vets are often the first to see evidence
of abuse in a family, when they treat injured pets.”

“Different forces on bones can tell a story—the skeleton of an animal
keeps a distinct record that indicates the force app…

The University of Newcastle's
exciting new residential development on the Callaghan campus is nearing
completion, and students will soon have the chance to be one of its
first residents, with applications for 2015 set to open on Oct. 1.

Take a virtual tour of the new facilities: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/future-students/uon-student-living/uon-student-living

Due for completion later this year, the four multi-level residences
will boast 336 self-catered apartments and almost 800 beds, and is the
largest accommodation build undertaken by UON since the construction of
Edwards Hall in 1972.

A home for University of Newcastle
students from across Australia and around the world, UON Student Living
provides a student experience like no other. The development of the
four new apartment blocks will see capacity to accommodate students
almost double.

The accommodation project aims to address the shortage of
contemporary and affordable student housing in the Hunter region, while
…

The Monash University School of Nursing and Midwifery
offers high-quality degrees in a vibrant and supportive learning
environment to prepare students for a rewarding career in health care.
The school offers courses across three campuses: Berwick, Clayton, and
the Peninsula. These include undergraduate (single and double-degrees),
honours, postgraduate courses, and PhD studies.

Programs, developed in collaboration with the school’s professional
partners, are responsive to the needs of the nursing and midwifery
industry and engaging for students.

Monash University Nursing School’s
popular postgraduate courses prepare students for advanced general and
specialist practice and can be tailored to suit individual career
aspirations. Academic staff enjoy an international research profile in
areas such as education in nursing, palliative care, mental health,
emergency care, midwifery and paediatrics.

Why study Master of Nursing Practice?
If you’re not happy with the direction your…

Six outstanding new law professors will be joining Melbourne Law School for the 2015 academic year.

Melbourne Law School Dean
Professor Carolyn Evans says that the new staff members were selected
from a very wide pool of applicants and will bring a diverse range of
areas of expertise and experience to the law school.

“Our new academics have trained at some of the world’s leading
institutions including Oxford, Yale and Stanford. They have demonstrated
the highest quality of scholarship and a deep commitment to teaching
excellence,” says Professor Evans. “We are looking forward to welcoming
them next year.”

Inbar Levy
Inbar is a graduate of Hebrew University and Oxford University where
she earned a BCL and is currently completing her DPhil. Inbar is
qualified in both law and psychology and brings these two disciplines to
bear in her research on civil procedure.

Inbar has won numerous awards including the Modern Law Review
Doctoral Scholarship and has also spent time at Columb…

Australia should upgrade its infectious disease control
capabilities by adopting a US-style Centers of Disease Control,
according to a University of Sydney Medical School expert who warns that the world will see more frequent epidemics.

“Despite our advancing ability to fight infectious disease epidemics
and rapidly identify the microbes that cause them, we should expect new
and more frequent epidemics as human populations get bigger and better
connected,” says Professor Eddie Holmes, who spoke at the University of Sydney's 21st Century Medicine Series on Wednesday, Sept. 17.

“When humans made the shift from hunter-gatherer to an agricultural
society they created the first big opportunity for the rise and spread
of infectious diseases in humans,” says Holmes, an evolutionary
biologist who has studied viruses and other microbes for more than 20
years.

“As we settled in large villages and began living closely with
farming animals we optimised the conditions for viruses and…

UQ Pharmacy School’s Professor Greg Monteith will be hosting an online seminar tonight, Wednesday, Sept. 24, specifically for students who are interested in the Bachelor of Pharmacy program at the University of Queensland.

UQ Pharmacy School Online Seminar Details
This webinar will be designed to give students more detailed information about the Bachelor of Pharmacy program, the UQ Pharmacy School and its state-of-the-art facilities, placements, graduate outcomes, and credit transfers.

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About Credit Transfers
Many international students with prior study (especially those with a
science background) are able to enter directly into Year 2 of the Bachelor of Pharmacy
program. If credit is awarded, students can undertake an additional
course in their first and second semester of enrollment and …

On Wednesday, October 8, OzTREKK will be hosting a Study in Australia Fair for everyone living in the Montreal area!

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to study in Australia? Would you like more information about studying medicine, dentistry, law, pharmacy, and physiotherapy in Australia?

Please join us for this upcoming OzTREKK Study in Australia Fair!
This is a free event and everyone is welcome to attend. Come meet our
Australian university representatives and ask as many questions as you
wish about the program that interests you. All eight of OzTREKK’s Australian universities will be there to help!

Event DetailsDate: Wednesday, October 8, 2014Time: 4 – 7 p.m.Venue: Room 302, Shatner Building, McGill UniversityMap: http://tiny.cc/McGillShatnerBldg
Since Australian universities only
visit a few times a year, this is a must-not-miss event. At the fair,
you will be able to meet all Australian university staff and learn more
about theiruniversitiesprograms availableprogram entr…

Two University of Queensland early-career researchers have been recognised by their peers for their promising medical and technology research at the 17th annual Women in Technology (WiT) awards ceremony.

Dr Irina Vetter, from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and UQ School of Pharmacy,
won the WiT Rising Star Award for her research to understand the causes
of pain and develop new treatments for the one in five Australians
living with chronic pain.

“Pain is something we have all experienced, and usually we expect
this pain will go away—but this isn’t the case for those living with
chronic pain,” she said.

“Chronic pain also has a huge impact on the community, and together
with my colleagues in IMB’s Centre for Pain Research, we are working to
put it on the national health agenda,” she said.

Dr Helen Huang, from the UQ School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, won the WiT Infotech Research Award for her contribution in the field of big data manageme…

James Cook University is again toasting its success, winning a clean sweep of national teaching and learning awards.

JCU is one of two Australian universities to win all of the six possible Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

The Deputy Vice Chancellor for the Division of Academic and Student
Life, Professor Sally Kift said it’s an outstanding result for JCU to receive the maximum number of awards.

“It highlights the passion, commitment and excellence of our dedicated teaching staff and confirms JCU's leadership position in the sector in learning and teaching.”

The Office for Learning and Teaching awards the citations to
recognise excellence in teaching and outstanding contributions to
student learning.

Citations recognise and reward the impact that each of our dedicated
teachers has had both in their discipline and on our students’
experience of their learning. The Citations showcase our many new and
exceptionally innovative approaches to learning …

Each fall we travel across Canada to meet with Canadian students
interested in pursuing their career dreams in Australia. We bring the
information to them, making it easy to access the answers needed when
considering studies in Australia.

Have you been thinking about studying medicine in Australia? Are you curious about dental programs, law programs, or physiotherapy programs in Australia? OzTREKK will be visiting Carleton University on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 for our annual fall OzTREKK Study in Australia Fair.

Macquarie Linguistics
PhD candidate Alexandra Grey has been selected from 200 young
Australian professionals, entrepreneurs, and students, to attend the
2014 Australia-China Youth Dialogue, a youth-driven bilateral conference
to take place this November in Beijing.

After being shortlisted following her written application in July,
and finally selected after an interview in September, Alex and a small
number of emerging Australian leaders will spend four days meeting with
young Chinese counterparts and a series of established diplomatic,
corporate, academic and civil society leaders from both countries.

“The ACYD’s invited speakers are diplomatic, business and academic
leaders I would not have access to otherwise. To be able to speak with
them in small groups during workshops is bound to be thought provoking,”
said Alex.

“I am especially looking forward to learning from the other young
Australian and Chinese delegates, because they come from such an array
of specialties. I…

“More than a million Queenslanders live in remote and regional areas,
sometimes hundreds of kilometres from a health clinic or access to a
medical specialist,” Dr Smith said. “Telehealth, which links clinicians
with patients with health services, using techniques such as
videoconferencing and email, will connect people living in remote places
with specialist services not readily available in rural and remote
areas.”

Dr Smith said the centre would support collaboration between research
teams working to develop capacity in telehealth for everyone in
Qu…

On Tuesday, October 7, OzTREKK and all eight of our Australian universities will be hosting the Fall Study in Australia Fair at the University of Ottawa. If you’ve ever wondered about studying at another university—in another country—don’t miss this event!

Our Australian representatives fly to Canada to participate in these
OzTREKK events in order to give you the most information possible. Come
visit with Australian university
representatives to find out about what it’s like to study your program
of interest at an Australian university. This is a free event, and
everyone is welcome.

University of OttawaDate: Tuesday, October 7, 2014Time: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.Venue: Atrium, University Centre, University of OttawaMap: http://tiny.cc/OttawaU
Chat with Australian university representatives to find out more
about the programs that interest you. Find out more about accommodation,
scholarships, and accreditation processe…

Staff from the Sydney Faculty of Pharmacy
welcomed more than 200 alumni and guests at the sold-out “Under the
Scope: Dinner for Diabetes Research” in August 2014, highlighting the
work of our leading researchers.

“The Faculty of Pharmacy
has a long-standing interest and national and international reputation
in diabetes research, ranging from basic sciences to clinical and
translational research to offering diabetes health services in community
pharmacies,” said Professor Iqbal Ramzan, Dean of Pharmacy.

“It is here at the University of Sydney that we are leading the innovation in diabetes research.”

The evening served to celebrate the faculty’s latest research
breakthroughs and developments, such as Associate Professor Thomas
Grewal and his team’s world-first discovery of a link between
cholesterol and wound healing, a major health issue for diabetic
patients. Guests also learned about the work of Professor Ines Krass and
her team’s community health services initiative, and…

Every Fall, we invite our select Australian universities
to join us in Canada for our OzTREKK Study in Australia Fairs in order
to showcase the exceptional programs and schools in Australia that are
available to Canadian students. Since Australian university
representatives only visit a few times a year, this is a must-not-miss
event!

This year, we will be visiting Queen’s University on Monday, October 6, 2014 to give Canadian students the opportunity to learn more about their program options at Australian universities.

All eight of OzTREKK’s Australian universities
will attend the fair at Queen’s, sending staff from Australia to Canada
to advise hundreds of students and their parents of their study options
in Australia.

OzTREKK is a Canadian application and information centre for students considering studying at select Australian
universities. We’re a Canadian company based in Perth, Ontario, midway
between Ottawa and Toronto.

We offer a wide range of services, and it’s all free for you—we’re paid
by the Australian universities, because they recognize that we’re
experts in matching what they offer with what Canadian students need. In
fact, OzTREKK is the only representative in Canada operated by
Australians and Canadians and specializing solely in Australian universities.

If you apply to an Australian university through OzTREKK, you’ll benefit
from insider knowledge, save time researching, and get all your
questions answered. It’s that simple. Find out how you can study in Australia!